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Internet2 Land Speed Winners Set New Transcontinental Internet Performance
Records

Information Sciences Institute, Microsoft, Qwest and University of
Washington Team on Winning Entry

Washington, DC-March 29, 2000—A team from Microsoft, Qwest, the University
of Washington and the Information Sciences Institute were awarded the first
Internet2™ Land Speed Record awards here today at the Spring 2000 Internet2
Members Meeting. The winning entry set a new standard for transcontinental
Internet performance by transferring 8.4 gigabytes of data from Redmond,
Washington to Arlington, Virginia (5,626 Km) in under 82 seconds. The rate
of over 900 megabits per second is more than 15,000 times faster than a
typical computer modem.

“We hope this competition gets people thinking about enabling really
revolutionary Internet applications,” said Jim Gray, a member of the
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. “The limits on
today's Internet are no longer determined by raw bandwidth but rather how
well the different network components work together. The Internet2 Land
Speed Record competition should encourage people to tackle this set of
challenges.”

A primary goal of Internet2 is to deploy and demonstrate advanced networking
capabilities that will make their way into the global commodity Internet.
Internet2 is a partnership led by over 175 US universities, working with
industry, government and international partners.

"The Internet2 Land Speed Record highlights the need for dependable high
end-to-end network throughput which is required by advanced applications but
not commonly available to researchers today,” said Guy Almes, Chief Engineer
for Internet2.

Entries were judged on a combination of how much bandwidth they used and how
much distance they covered end-to-end, using the standard Internet (TCP/IP)
protocols. The Internet2 Land Speed Awards will be presented every six
months at the Internet2 Member Meetings, with the next one scheduled for the
Fall 2000 Internet2 Member Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

Details of the winning entries, as well as rules, submission guidelines and
additional details are available at:
http://www.internet2.edu/html/i2lsr.html

About Internet2™
Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications and
technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the creation of
tomorrow’s Internet. Internet2 recreates the partnership of academia,
industry and government that helped foster today's Internet in its infancy.
For more information about Internet2, see:
http://www.internet2.edu/

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